protectors of one another, of the environment. let us not allow that signs of destruction and death accompany our journey of this world. but protection also means that we must take care of ourselves. let us recall that hate, envy, pride, dirty the life. to protect means to be attentive to our own feelings or sentiments, our heart because precisely from our heart is where good intentions and bad intentions come out. those that build up and those that tear down. we must not be afraid of goodness, neither of tenderness. and here, i'd like to add another note. taking care of, protecting, requires goodness. it requires living it with tenderness. in the gospel, st. joseph appears as a strongman, a worker. but in his spirit, there emerges a tenderness. it's not the virtue of the weak. on the contrary, it denotes strength, capacity of attention, compassion, true openness to one another, of love. we must not be afraid of goodness and tenderness. today, today, together, with a feast of st. joseph, we celebrate the beginning of the ministry